Cheaper by the Dozen Trivia

1. Which two sons run off to Midland?

From Quiz The Children From "Cheaper by the Dozen"

Answer: Charlie and Mark

After moving to Chicago, all the children become unhappy and the children start fighting. Charlie is the second child and oldest son. After moving to Chicago, Charlie is bullied at school and starts driving off to Midland to visit his girlfriend instead of going to school. Mark is the seventh child and the fourth son. Throughout the movie it is said that Mark is very different from his other siblings and doesn't feel like he fits in. After his frog, Beans, dies and nobody cares, he runs away. After his sister Nora tells their father that she always wanted to run away to her "favorite place in the world", Tom finds Mark on a train going to Midland.

From Quiz Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)

Answer: Too many beers

Nora, Charlie, Lorraine, Henry, Sarah, Jake and Mark were planned since Tom and Kate wanted eight kids. When they went for number eight they had twins, Jessica and Kim. Later, they went to a party and had too many beers and nine months later, they had Mike. And in 1998, Nigel and Kyle were born, for a total of 12 kids.

From Quiz Chatting with "Cheaper by the Dozen"

Answer: Illinois

You know this because the Bakers first lived in Midland, then moved to Chicago when Tom gets a better job as a football coach for the Stallions.

From Quiz Cheaper By the Dozen

Answer: monkey

In the breakfast scene, at the beginning of the movie, Sarah comes down with olive green shorts and a blue spaghetti strap shirt with a monkey on it. She also has her lacrosse stick.

From Quiz Cheaper By The Dozen

Answer: Lorraine

You may not have heard her say this, because at the time the kids were fighting. The argument all started when Mark announced that Beans had died. When he said it, Sarah said that nobody cared about his stupid frog. Then, the two of them started to argue, causing the rest of the kids to do the same.

From Quiz Cheaper By The Dozen

Answer: Kate Baker

Kate is played by Bonnie Hunt. Bonnie has played in many things, her most recent being a sitcom called "Life with Bonnie".

From Quiz Another Round of "Cheaper By The Dozen"

Answer: Sarah

Sarah was also the mastermind behing the prank the kids pulled on Hank during his last visit, setting his pants on fire!

From Quiz Cheaper By The Dozen

Answer: 1998

Nigel and Kyle were the youngest out of all the 12 kids.

From Quiz The Children From "Cheaper by the Dozen"

Answer: Jessica

After Mark, the seventh child, runs away and gets off the train in Midland, he is reunited with his family at the train station. He finds it unexpected that his family are so worried about him after he ran away because his siblings keep calling him Fed-Ex. Jessica tells him that his vision problems can be traced back to several of the Baker ancestors and therefore Mark clearly belongs in the family.

From Quiz Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)

Answer: Jake wearing black

At this point, the children had already found out that they were going to move and were angry about it. Jake then showed up for the photography wearing black. His parents weren't happy about his choice of wardrobe for the Christmas cards. Lorraine thought black would work since Jesus had his funeral on Christmas. Henry then "corrected" Lorraine and said that Jesus had his funeral on Easter instead. Jessica then corrected Henry and said that Jesus died on Easter. Henry then hit Jessica and told her to shut up. Then the rest of the children entered the fight.

From Quiz Chatting with "Cheaper by the Dozen"

Answer: a doorknob

None of the kids, except for Norah, like her boyfriend, played by Ashton Kutcher. They think he is especially weird because he irons his jeans.

From Quiz Cheaper By the Dozen

Answer: dark green

Everyone is sitting at the table dressed in Christmas clothes. This is the only scene where Nora is dressed in Christmas clothes and she is wearing a dark green sweater.

From Quiz Cheaper By The Dozen

Answer: Lakeside High School

The cast and crew often referred to the school as "Model High" because everybody there was perfectly built. According to one of the commentaries on the DVD, Charlie and Lorraine went to high school, Henry and Sarah went to middle school (junior high), Jake, Mark, Kim, Jessica, and Mike went to elementary school, and Nigel and Kyle were in nursery school.

From Quiz Cheaper By The Dozen

Answer: 3

They had Nora, Lorraine, and Charlie. Kate says this when she is explaining why they moved.

From Quiz Cheaper by the Dozen

Answer: Simple Plan

One of my favorite bands. They have hit songs like "Perfect" and Addicted". It describes how their first day of school was: horrible.

From Quiz Another Round of "Cheaper By The Dozen"

Answer: Mark

Mark loves Beans. They are best friends and Mark feels that Beans is the only one he can talk to.

From Quiz Cheaper By The Dozen

Answer: Lucky Brand

He has this shirt on twice in the movie.

From Quiz The Children From "Cheaper by the Dozen"

Answer: Nora

Nora is the oldest child and therefore the oldest daughter. Nora is dating a guy named Hank. During the breakfast scene at the beginning of the movie, Sarah calls Hank a doorknob and Jake says, "The man irons his jeans, mom!" as an argument for Hank being a doorknob.

From Quiz Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)

Answer: Tom was offered the position of coaching the Stallions.

During the flashbacks in the beginning of the movie, the Bakers lived in Chicago and Tom's dream job was coaching the Stallions. After Nora, Charlie and Lorraine were born, Tom and Kate realized that they couldn't live in the city, have eight children and two careers. Therefore the family moved to the country. As the children grew older, Tom's old friend, Shake, offered him the position of coaching the Stallions which still was Tom's dream job. The family then moved back to Chicago.

From Quiz Chatting with "Cheaper by the Dozen"

Answer: Henry

Henry is the oldest boy in the family, after Charlie. He and Charlie have a good friendship as brothers, until they move to Chicago.

From Quiz Cheaper By the Dozen

Answer: 12

In the beginning of the movie, Kate Baker (Bonnie Hunt), is narrating. She says, "12 is our number. It's the number of games my husband Tom coaches at Lincoln College every season..."

From Quiz Cheaper By The Dozen

Answer: Midland

They say the name of this town many times throughout the movie. You also see it on a large sign near the end. Midland is a small town, and they decide to move there because their chances of raising a big family would be better in a small town.

From Quiz Another Round of "Cheaper By The Dozen"

Answer: Jake

The children held this sign up at every game they attended.

From Quiz Cheaper By The Dozen

Answer: Forrest Avenue

This sign is shown twice in the movie.

From Quiz The Children From "Cheaper by the Dozen"

Answer: Nigel and Kyle

All the 11 youngest children aren't fond of Nora's boyfriend, Hank, and try their best to get rid of him. When Nora and Hank come to visit, the nine youngest children plan another scheme against Hank. Phase one is getting Hank's underwear soaked so their parents would have to wash and dry them. Phase two is soaking the underwear in a bucket full of meat so that Gunner would attack him once he put on the underwear. When Tom asks the children who is responsible for "the meat-soaking plot against Hank" Nigel and Kyle step forward. Tom doesn't buy it and concludes that Sarah must be the mastermind and that she has a "dark gift".

From Quiz Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)

Answer: His frog's mother was buried in Midland.

Mark's only friend was his frog, Beans, and therefore he saw Beans as his family. Therefore he didn't want to split Beans from his mother, Pork, who was buried in the Baker's backyard in Midland.

From Quiz Chatting with "Cheaper by the Dozen"

Answer: Mark

Sarah is the one who made up this name for Mark, because she doesn't think he fits in with the family. Mark has red hair and glasses, unlike any other members of the family.

From Quiz Cheaper By the Dozen

Answer: Alyson Stoner

Alyson Stoner plays Sarah, the troublemaker who thinks up all the tricks to play on people, like soaking Hank's underwear in meat. Liliana Mumy plays Jessica. Morgan York plays Kim. Hilary Duff plays Lorraine.

From Quiz Cheaper By The Dozen

Answer: Jake

"Day fourteen on the alien planet" is also the title of that specific scene. Jake said this because everything was so different and they were still not used to the idea of living in a new place.

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